It was just announced that the OPEN Forum won B2B’s People’s Choice award in the social media marketing awards.
Write Up of the Award: http://tinyurl.com/2fwjboy
May, 2010
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May 10
OPEN Forum Mobile Site Launches
Recently we launched the mobile version of the OPENForum.com site. This mobile version is a great example of the possibilities of webkit on the mobile phone, leveraging technologies like jqtouch and others.
Some screens:
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May 10
FITC Workshop – Bridging Physical and Digital Through Arduino and Flash
About 1 week ago I had the pleasure of leading a 7 hour workshop on physical computing and how to connect flash to Arduino. Thanks to Sparkfun, we had a great set of components and support from Chris Rojas.
The official title of the workshop was:
“Bridging Physical and Digital Through Arduino and Flash – Workshop”
Description: Physical computing is about connecting the digital with the physical space, and this has never been more relevant and accessible to digital creative than now. Spend the day with CP+B technologists prototyping with Flash and arduino. Attendees will be divided up into small teams, given a box of components, a random creative brief, and tasked with building a working prototype by the end of the session. Sparkfun will be on-hand with gobs of free gadgets for us to experiment with and some guidance on how best to use them. Seven hours, a huge mess of Sparkfun parts and your imagination. Anything is possible.
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The workshop was great with over 25 people all working together to build great things. Here are some photos taken by Chris Rojas of Sparkfun during the workshop:
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May 10
OPEN Forum® Awarded Numerous Awards
The first and leading social network for small businesses, OPENForum.com, has been awarded numerous awards this year:
2010 North American Effie Award in the category of Financial Services – Cards
2009 Digital Publishing & Advertising Conference (DPAC) Awards
- - Best Branded Social Media Community
- - Best Branded Website
- - Best Digital Branding Campaign
- - Best in Show, 2009
B2B Twitterer of the Year – Runner-Up, National/International
Promo 2010 Interactive Marketing Awards – Second Place, Internet-Based Loyalty Marketing
BtoB 2010 Social Media Marketing Awards – First Place, Integrated Social Media Campaign (Non-Tech)
Brandweek 2010 Reggie Awards – Gold, B2B Campaign
minOnline Best of the Web Awards – Finalist, Custom Website (winner TBA)
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May 10
Cuervo Games
It’s a little late in the game, but we’ve had the Cuervo Games going for quite some time now. This is a fully integrated campaign with a full touring Out of Home execution, as well as a supporting digital property.
The response has been fantastic and it’s been an awesome project to lead up the technology for. The technology includes the digital property, a full registration and moderation system, a Digital LED leader board with full admin control and a full on-site registration system.
